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The Palazzo Medici, also called the Palazzo Medici Riccardi after the later family that acquired and expanded it, is a 15th-century Renaissance palace in Florence, Italy. It was built for the Medici family , who dominated the politics of the Republic of Florence .
From the 1850s, a number of buildings were designed that expand the Palazzo style with its rustications, rows of windows, and large cornice, over very long buildings such as Grosvenor Terrace in Glasgow (1855) by J. T. Rochead and Watts Warehouse (Britannia House), Manchester, (1856) by Travis and Magnall, a "virtuoso performance" in Palazzo ...
Magi Chapel. The Magi Chapel is a chapel in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi of Florence, Italy.Its walls are almost entirely covered by a famous cycle of frescoes by the Renaissance master Benozzo Gozzoli, painted around 1459 for the Medici family, the effective rulers of Florence.
Palazzo Vecchio by night. The Palazzo Vecchio (Italian pronunciation: [paˈlattso ˈvɛkkjo] "Old Palace") is the town hall of Florence, Italy.It overlooks the Piazza della Signoria, which holds a copy of Michelangelo's David statue, and the gallery of statues in the adjacent Loggia dei Lanzi.
The palazzo remained the principal Medici residence until Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, the last of the male Medici line, died in 1737. It was then occupied briefly by his sister, the elderly Electress Palatine ; on her death, the Medici dynasty became extinct and the palazzo passed to the new Grand Dukes of Tuscany , the ...
Palazzo Strozzi is an example of civil architecture with its rusticated stone, [5] inspired by the Palazzo Medici, but with more harmonious proportions.Unlike the Medici Palace, which was sited on a corner lot, and thus has only two sides, this building, surrounded on all four sides by streets, is a free-standing structure.
Palazzo Medici Riccardi by Michelozzo. Florence, 1444. The Palazzo Medici Riccardi is Classical in the details of its pedimented windows and recessed doors, but, unlike the works of Brunelleschi and Alberti, there are no classical orders of columns in evidence. Instead, Michelozzo has respected the Florentine liking for rusticated stone.
An early-15th-century piano nobile at the Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara.Its larger windows indicate its superior status compared with the rooms on the floor below. The Beletage of Dresden's Villa Martha, built in the 1870s At the 18th-century Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire, the piano nobile is placed above a rusticated ground floor, and reached by an external staircase.